MCQs on fungi

Multiple choice questions on fungi

1. Mycology is the study of:
• Algae
• Fungi✅
• Bacteria
• Pteridophyta


2. Diplanetism is exhibited by:
• Alternaria
• Saprolegnia✅
• Phytophthora
• Synchytrium


3. Irish Famine of North Europe during 1840s was occured due to:
• Late Blight of potato✅
• Brown leaf of rice
• Viral infection
• Cholera


4. Late blight of potato is caused by:
• Synchytrium endobioticum
• Alternaria solani
• Phytophthroa infestans✅
• Albugo candida


5. Hypertrophy means:
• Increase in size of affected parts✅
• Decrease in size
• Both (a) and (b)
• None of the above


6. Which of the following in intracellular parasite?
• Albugo candida
• Synchytrium✅
• Saprolegnia
• Aspergillus


7. The fungus depends upon organic remains is known as:
• Saprophyte✅
• Sporophyte
• Symbiont
• Parasite


8. Aseptate fungi have:
• No septa at the base of reproductive organs
• No septa in the older portion of the mycelium
• No septa in the vigorously growing portion of the mycelium✅
• Primitive type of septa in the mycelium


9. Most common constituent of the fungal cell wall is:
• Chitin✅
• Cellulose
• Proteins
• Lipids


10. All fungi are:
• Symbionts
• Parasites
• Saprophytes
• Heterotrophs✅


11. Which of the following has aseptate mycelium?
• Puccinia
• Peziza
• Cystopus✅
• Alternaria


12. Water mold is:
• Synchytrium
• Saprolegnia✅
• Agaricus
• ustilago


13. Motile structures are absent in:
• Cystopus
• Synchytrium
• Saprolegnia
• Ustilago✅


14. Fungi obtain their nutrition by:
• Ingestion
• Photosynthesis
• Absorption✅
• None of the above


15. Clamp connection are present in:
• Class- Oomycetes
• Class- Ascomycetes
• Class- Basidiomycetes✅
• Class- Deuteromycetes


16. Sexual reproduction is absent in:
• Phycomycetes
• Ascomycetes
• Basidiomycetes
• Deuteromycetes✅


17. Albugo belongs to which class?
• Phycomycetes✅
• Ascomycetes
• Basidiomycetes
• Deuteromycetes


18. A living organism infected by a parasite is known as:
• Host✅
• Obligate parasite
• Facultative parasite
• All the above


19. Which of the following is a fungal symptom?
• Smut✅
• Gummosis
• Vein clearing
• Non of the above





MCQs on fungi



20. Downy mildews are:
• Obligate parasite✅
• Obligate saprophyte
• Facultative parasite
• Facultative saprophyte


21. White pustules on the underside (abaxial) of mustard leaves developed by:
• Ustilago
• Cystopus✅
• Pythium
• Alternaria


22. Who is the father of plant pathology?
• Butler
• de Bary✅
• K C Mehta
• T Sadasivan


23. Cell wall of fungi is made up of:
• Plasma membrane
• Fungal cellulose
• Fungal cellulose and chitin✅
• None of the above


24. Reserve food material of fungi is:
• Insulin
• Glycogen✅
• Glucose
• None of the above


25. Higher fungi reproduce by:
• Nuclei ✅
• Gametes
• Archegonium
• Antherdium and archegonium





Multiple choice questions on fungi



26. Penicillin is obtained from:
• Penicillium citrinum
• Penicillium chrysogenum
• Penicillium notatum
• Both (b) and (c)✅


27. Heterothallism in fungi was discovered by:
• K.C. Mehta
• A.F. Blakeslee✅
• Jamaluddin and Chandra
• Pontecorvo and Roper


28. Which of the following is edible fungus?
• Agaricus
• Morchella
• Lycoperdon
• All of the above✅


29. The tissue composed of compact mass of hyphae are:
• Porophore
• Sromata✅
• Sclerotium
• Plectenchyma


30. Spores produced inside the sporangia are called as:
• Conidia
• Endospores✅
• Zoospores
• Oidia


31. In some fungi, the hyphae break up into individual cells. These cells behave as spores. Such spores are:
• Conidia
• Endospores
• Zoospores
• Oidia✅


32. Krankheitsherd (German for "focus of a/the disease") is formed in:
• Albugo
• Pythium
• Penicillium
• Plasmodiophora✅


33. Powdery mildew is caused by:
• Erysiphe
• Albugo
• Podosphaera xanthii✅
• Ustilago


34. Each branch of Penicillium bears at its tip a group of short branches called:
• Vesicle
• Sterigmata✅
• Penicillus
• Conidia


35. Smut is:
• Puccinia
• Albugo
• Pythium
• Ustilago✅


36. Basidia are arranged compactly to form:
• Trama
• Hymenium✅
• Paraphyses
• Buttons


37. Mature fruiting body is called:
• Sporophore
• Rhizomorph
• Pileus
• Gills✅


38. The black colored spores produced in smut are:
• Chlamydospores
• Teleutospores✅
• Aeciospores
• Basidiospores


39. The spores infecting Barberry plants are:
• Uredospores
• Teleutospores
• Aeciospores
• Basidiospores✅


40. The cell containing many nuclei is called:
• Coenocyte✅
• Hyphae
• Mycelium
• Sporophore


41. The group of mass of hyphae is called:
• Coenocyte
• Hyphae
• Mycelium ✅
• Sporophore


42. Sometime hyphae arranged to form fruiting bodies, known as:
• Sporophore
• Stromata ✅
• Sclerotium
• Rhizpomorph


43. Some fungal tissues become very hard. Fruiting bodies are formed on such tissues. These tissues are called as:
• Sporophore
• Stromata
• Sclerotium✅
• Rhizpomorph


44. Sexual hyphae united to form rope-like strand called:
• Sporophore
• Stromata
• Sclerotium
• Rhizpomorph✅


45. The tissues with distinct hyphae are called:
• Prosenchyma✅
• Sclerotium
• Plectenchyma
• Stromata


46. Exogenous development is found in case of:
• Ascospores
• Basidiospores✅
• Conidia✅
• Cyst


47. Perithecia are observed in:
• Claviceps purpurea✅
• Penicillium spp.
• Aspergillus spp.
• None of the above


48. Which of the following is used for baking bread?
• Rhizopus stolonifer
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae ✅
• Zygosaccharomyces octosporus
• Penicillium notatum


49. Penicillium roqueforti and P. Camembertti are responsible for
• Pathogenic disease in plants
• Pathogenic disease in man
• Pathogenic disease in cattle
• Imparting flavor to cheese ✅


50. Which one is used as biocontrol agent to treat the plant disease
• Trichoderma viridae✅
• Penicillium notatum
• Saprolegnia parasitica
• Rhizoctonia solani

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First published on 13-04-2021
Last updated on 27-04-2021